Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.